Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 05:48:34 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 03:45:44, martin fierz wrote: >i won't claim shannon wasn't american. but AFAIK turing was there first. he was >the guy who played a computer chess game by computing moves of his program >himself on pieces of paper ;-) I think there is some confusion as to who was first. Some websites say Turing wrote his program in 1947, while Shannon described his program in 1949. Another says Turing was in 1951, while Shannon was in 1950. I've always heard Shannon was first, for whatever that's worth.
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